tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:12:32 +0000enforcementorganizingdetentiondeportationpoliticslaborborderlegal statusyouthroot causeseconomic impactcrimeraidsracismfamily tiesrefugeesanti-immigrant groupsDREAM ActCIRresistanceguest worker programsarticlesamnestysanctuarymediaArizonadialogueswomen's rightslocal enforcementhealthNAFTAMay 1birthright citizenshipinterviewsLGBTSecure CommunitiesassimilationenvironmentresourcesPostvilleterrorismDignity CampaignreviewsEnglish onlyTPSID cardsThe Politics of Immigrationhttp://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)Blogger1628125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-1188118858320857739Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:54:00 +00002019-02-19T06:59:55.477-05:00detentionmediaracismresources“Resistance at Tule Lake”: Screenings 3/10/19 and 3/28/19<i>On February 19 communities across the country honor the 77th anniversary of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. Here's a note from Konrad Aderer, who created </i>Resistance at Tule Lake<i>, a documentary covering little-known aspects of the incarceration. We’re also including information on two screenings of the film next month and on ways people can use it for education and organizing.—TPOI editor</i><br /><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><b>Since our official release for home and educational purchase in October, we have sought to keep pushing the boundaries of who knows about and engages with the history of Japanese American resistance. So far, more than a dozen universities and libraries have purchased <i>Resistance at Tule Lake</i>, including three University of California campuses! We are continuing our educational outreach so that this film is available in many more of the approximately 600 Asian and Asian American Studies departments in the U.S. <o:p></o:p></b><br /><b><br /></b><b>This will require continued work and creativity through 2019 and beyond. We can still use your help in bringing <i>Resistance at Tule Lake</i> to a wider audience. Please take a few moments to write a review on Amazon and Netflix, or iTunes.—Konrad Aderer</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b9MWne2OOUg/XGuHnysju0I/AAAAAAAACZk/L34hjVYMzdUnTik3CvfCYGQw8FWnqINqQCLcBGAs/s1600/ResistanceTuleLake2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b9MWne2OOUg/XGuHnysju0I/AAAAAAAACZk/L34hjVYMzdUnTik3CvfCYGQw8FWnqINqQCLcBGAs/s400/ResistanceTuleLake2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Screening at Oakland Asian Cultural Center</b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Resistance at Tule Lake Film screening</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://oacc.cc/event/resistance-at-tule-lake/">Oakland Asian Cultural Center</a><o:p></o:p></b></div><h1 align="center" style="tab-stops: .5in; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sunday, March 10 at 2:00pm</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;388 Ninth St. Suite 290</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Oakland, CA</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Director and educators to present film at National Council</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">on Public History conference</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://ncph.org/conference/2019-annual-meeting/">National Council on Public History (NCPH) 2019 Annual Meeting</a><o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">“Teaching about World War II-Era Detention and Prison Centers:<br />A Screening of <i>Resistance at Tule Lake”</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">with director Konrad Aderer, and educators Cathlin Goulding and Freda Lin</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 3:30pm</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;Connecticut Convention Center</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">100 Columbus Blvd.</div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">Hartford, Connecticut</div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/resistanceattulelake.html">Buy DVD</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/resistance-at-tule-lake/id1438318290?mt=6&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4">Rent or Buy on iTunes</a></span></b></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #202020;">Visit us at&nbsp;</span><b><a href="https://lifeorliberty.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c810ff953c8d24bf80524cd7&amp;id=897884c604&amp;e=4bd19a88b9" target="_blank"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #007c89;">www.ResistanceatTuleLake.com</span></a></b><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #202020;">! For further information, inquiries and screening requests, contact director-producer Konrad Aderer at&nbsp;</span><b><a href="mailto:producer@lifeorliberty.org" target="_blank"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #007c89;">producer@lifeorliberty.org</span></a></b><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #202020;">.&nbsp;</span></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2019/02/resistance-at-tule-lake-screenings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-8553206322710254253Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:34:00 +00002019-02-18T10:34:29.568-05:00borderorganizingpoliticsresistanceReminder for 2/18/19: Protest Trump’s Bogus National Emergency!<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">☛ NYC Union Square at 5 pm:</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.crisisresponse.us/event/crisis-response/17201/signup/?akid=&amp;zip=&amp;source=indivisible">https://www.crisisresponse.us/event/crisis-response/17201/signup/?akid=&amp;zip=&amp;source=indivisible</a></span><br /> <div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">☛ Nationwide: find your local protest here: <a href="https://www.crisisresponse.us/event/crisis-response/search/?source=indivisible&amp;s=0">https://www.crisisresponse.us/event/crisis-response/search/?source=indivisible&amp;s=0</a>… and you can text “MOBILIZE” to 977-79 to get updates and the national events</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HPrpPJxkVYA/XGrQLfiSrtI/AAAAAAAACZU/qFGSahOv_bwEaAiuQB_dynLL5yrp-fqCACLcBGAs/s1600/BerlinWallCorbisGetty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1075" data-original-width="1600" height="268" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HPrpPJxkVYA/XGrQLfiSrtI/AAAAAAAACZU/qFGSahOv_bwEaAiuQB_dynLL5yrp-fqCACLcBGAs/s400/BerlinWallCorbisGetty.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One wall to deal with walls. Photo: Corbis/Getty</td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2019/02/reminder-for-21819-protest-trumps-bogus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-975314432727353296Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:41:00 +00002019-01-28T22:41:00.704-05:00amnestymediaWhy don’t the media fact-check “amnesty” claims?<i>"The practice of citing conservative agitators is often characterized as “<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/opinion/both-sides-now.html">bothsidesism</a></b>,” but here the news outlets only presented one side—the one on the far right—without even a hint that the claims might not have a factual basis."</i><br /><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>By David L. Wilson and Jane Guskin, <i>MR Online<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b>January 28, 2019</b></div><br />On January 20 Donald Trump actually said something accurate about immigration.<br /><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">Anti-immigrant pundits like Ann Coulter were attacking the president because he appeared to be offering to extend <b><a href="https://www.uscis.gov/archive/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca">DACA</a></b>protection for three years. They took to the airwaves and social media to denounce any DACA extension as an “<b><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coulter-rips-trump-daca-offer-calls-him-a-jeb_us_5c43c6b1e4b027c3bbc25bf2">amnesty</a></b>.” “No, Amnesty is not a part of my offer,” Trump <b><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426198-trump-defends-immigration-proposal-against-amnesty-criticism-from">tweeted back</a></b>, and for once he was right.[…]</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">Read the full article:</div><a href="https://mronline.org/2019/01/28/why-dont-the-media-fact-check-amnesty-claims">https://mronline.org/2019/01/28/why-dont-the-media-fact-check-amnesty-claims</a><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PEDf3K8u1Qc/XE_K1ucxBUI/AAAAAAAACY8/Q1M0vqPCfU8ahvhw-cgnQp8BdG-z19NuQCLcBGAs/s1600/amnestyBacon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PEDf3K8u1Qc/XE_K1ucxBUI/AAAAAAAACY8/Q1M0vqPCfU8ahvhw-cgnQp8BdG-z19NuQCLcBGAs/s400/amnestyBacon.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: David Bacon</td></tr></tbody></table><br />http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-dont-media-fact-check-amnesty-claims.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-6047854309745052379Sun, 27 Jan 2019 02:06:00 +00002019-01-26T21:41:50.518-05:00mediaorganizingresourcesNYC Immigration Events, 1/28/19, 2/1/19 and 2/2/19<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Support for Ravi Ragbir: Press Conference and Jericho Walk</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bkz7g9Zv4tQ/XE0QmFRMu3I/AAAAAAAACYo/EGhmNUYjkZQo-cscEvY8a2PJwenykm05ACLcBGAs/s1600/RaviRagbir3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bkz7g9Zv4tQ/XE0QmFRMu3I/AAAAAAAACYo/EGhmNUYjkZQo-cscEvY8a2PJwenykm05ACLcBGAs/s320/RaviRagbir3.jpg" width="272" /></a><b><span style="color: #202020;">Monday, January. 28, 2019, 9 am</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #202020;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/26+Federal+Plaza,+New+York,+NY+10278/@40.7155267,-74.0064111,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25a21dc86e067:0x1a337cd22733363f!8m2!3d40.7155267!4d-74.0042224">26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Info: <a href="https://istandwithravi.org/">https://istandwithravi.org/</a><a href="http://www.newsanctuarynyc.org/">http://www.newsanctuarynyc.org/</a></b></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.5pt;">Immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir has been scheduled to report to ICE on Monday. Ravi cannot be deported because he continues to have stays of removal from the&nbsp;<b><a href="https://facebook.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f47f0f5e12cfbb254093eb62c&amp;id=177507cc01&amp;e=85351101fb" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2baadf;">Federal District Court of New Jersey&nbsp;</span></a></b>and the&nbsp;<b><a href="https://facebook.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f47f0f5e12cfbb254093eb62c&amp;id=2571547ceb&amp;e=85351101fb" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2baadf;">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit</span></a></b>. But instead of cancelling this report date, as ICE has done in the past, ICE has changed it from a deportation date into a “check in.”&nbsp;</div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #202020;">ICE aggressively targets New York community members, and during the government shutdown continued spending its resources on requiring Ravi and countless others to check in. But we know the power of community. In the spirit of New Sanctuary’s&nbsp;<b><a href="https://facebook.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f47f0f5e12cfbb254093eb62c&amp;id=fae6a8f475&amp;e=85351101fb" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2baadf;">accompaniment program</span></a></b>, the Ravi Defense Committee asks that we all join in accompanying Ravi and in a Jericho Walk, starting at 9:30am.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.5pt;"><b><span style="color: #202020;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two Screenings of “Undeterred”</span></span></b></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #202020;">New York will be hosting two screenings of <b><i><a href="https://undeterredfilm.org/">Undeterred</a></i>,</b>a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Undeterred is an intimate and unique portrait of how residents in a small rural community, caught in the cross-hairs of geo-political forces, have mobilized to demand human rights and to provide aid to injured, oft times dying migrants funneled across a wilderness desert.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.5pt;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ROdtWyLB_Kw/XE0QwNekhPI/AAAAAAAACYs/6B1tsYn9q4kxDdpWxLTVaHkHYngYVbaxwCLcBGAs/s1600/undeterred.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="1180" height="206" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ROdtWyLB_Kw/XE0QwNekhPI/AAAAAAAACYs/6B1tsYn9q4kxDdpWxLTVaHkHYngYVbaxwCLcBGAs/s400/undeterred.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Friday, February 1, 2019, 5:45 pm<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Iris &amp; B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, Theater 101</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=36+E+8th+Street%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10003&amp;oq=36+E+8th+Street%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10003&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0.2431j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b>36 E 8th Street, New York, NY 10003</b></span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white;">RSVP at&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background: white;"><b><a href="https://publichealth.nyu.edu/events">https://publichealth.nyu.edu/events</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white;">Doors open at 5:30 pm. There will be a panel discussion at 7 pm following the screening. Featured will be filmmaker Eva Lewis and community organizer Carlota Wray. Both Eva and Carlota volunteer with People Helping People (<a href="http://phparivaca.org/">PHP</a>), an Arivaca-based community organization that provides crisis relief and advocates for border demilitarization.</span></div><h1><o:p></o:p></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Saturday, February 2, 2019, 5 pm</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>The People's Foru<o:p></o:p></b><b>m</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=320+W+37th+St%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10018&amp;oq=320+W+37th+St%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10018&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.436j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8">320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018</a><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>RSVP at&nbsp;<a href="https://peoplesforum.org/event/undeterred-film-screening/">https://peoplesforum.org/event/undeterred-film-screening/</a></b>&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><!--[endif]--></span>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2019/01/nyc-immigration-events-12819-2119-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-7396279090007083871Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:56:00 +00002019-01-23T12:02:51.683-05:00organizingracismresourcesFamilies For Freedom: “Divide and Conquer”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EARGfr0jnqk/XEieA7XAMZI/AAAAAAAACYc/kdOjyReV6JoVhh5l4gNmMXgHS1l8azaxgCLcBGAs/s1600/DivideandConquer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="511" height="255" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EARGfr0jnqk/XEieA7XAMZI/AAAAAAAACYc/kdOjyReV6JoVhh5l4gNmMXgHS1l8azaxgCLcBGAs/s400/DivideandConquer.png" width="400" /></a></div><b><a href="https://familiesforfreedom.org/">Families For Freedom</a> Newsletter</b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>January 19, 2019</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">In a recent address regarding the border wall at the beginning of this month, Donald Trump made an attempt to pit American minorities against immigrants. Most likely reading words written by Stephen Miller, the President directed his demonization of black and brown non-citizens to black and brown citizens: “All Americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages. Among those hardest hit are African Americans and Hispanic Americans.” This calculated artifice wants to continue the marginalization of the most oppressed in this country.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The argument has two goals: first, to bait the general public into hardening or developing inherently anti-black and brown views on immigration; the second is to limit the power of oppressed people by hindering their ability to form a collective front.[…]</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">To read more, subscribe <b><a href="https://familiesforfreedom.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=17733410e53e9c945ae6bb7e3&amp;id=853a72e5e4">here</a></b>.</div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2019/01/divide-and-conquer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-7159624223776844901Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:20:00 +00002019-01-23T11:56:50.141-05:00labororganizingHow Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Klmw245Olw/XEXGPIUPS9I/AAAAAAAACYE/7e6pcnj5HJkmClkQHMgIc5b3AE6LQ3xVACLcBGAs/s1600/CAmigrantslabormvt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="600" height="208" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Klmw245Olw/XEXGPIUPS9I/AAAAAAAACYE/7e6pcnj5HJkmClkQHMgIc5b3AE6LQ3xVACLcBGAs/s400/CAmigrantslabormvt.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>[Immigrant rights supporters should never forget that immigrants aren’t just victims: they are also subjects, actors in their own lives and communities. Here Elizabeth Oglesby, a professor of Latin American studies, describes some of the achievements by immigrant labor activists in the 1980s and 1990s. This phenomenon isn’t new. Immigrants were often leaders of struggles in the past, as with the <b><a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/uprising-of-20000-1909">Uprising of the 20,000</a></b> in New York more than a century ago, and immigrant labor organizes continues now in efforts like the <b><a href="https://prospect.org/article/how-new-yorks-fight-15-launched-nationwide-movement">Fight for $15</a></b>. Important coverage of some of these struggles is available from journalist David Bacon at his blog, </i><b><a href="http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/">The Reality Check</a></b><i>.—TPOI editor]</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>By Elizabeth Oglesby, <i>The Conversation</i><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>January 18, 2019</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">In the United States’ heated national debate about immigration, two views predominate about Central American migrants: President Donald Trump portrays them as a national security threat, while others respond that they are refugees from violence.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Little is said about the substantial contributions that Central Americans have made to U.S. society over the past 30 years.[…]</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Read the full article:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-central-american-migrants-helped-revive-the-us-labor-movement-109398">https://theconversation.com/how-central-american-migrants-helped-revive-the-us-labor-movement-109398</a></div><br />http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-central-american-migrants-helped.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-4970075327928477348Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:24:00 +00002019-01-13T23:18:09.218-05:00interviewsJanuary 14: Radio Interview With Politics of Immigration Co-Authors<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3-6ibtLTCuo/XDqE6X8sPhI/AAAAAAAACXk/78hkT0L8Spom4C0uEXGiEGNOJVKKvjVPgCLcBGAs/s1600/BuildingBridges.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="380" height="98" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3-6ibtLTCuo/XDqE6X8sPhI/AAAAAAAACXk/78hkT0L8Spom4C0uEXGiEGNOJVKKvjVPgCLcBGAs/s200/BuildingBridges.png" width="200" /></a><i>The Politics of Immigration’</i>s co-authors talk with&nbsp;<a href="http://buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/">Building Bridges</a>&nbsp;hosts Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash on NYC's WBAI from 7 to 7:30 pm EST, Monday, January 14, 2019. Topics include what's new under Trump, what's the same, and what we can do about it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />Listen NYC area: WBAI, 99.5 FM</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Listen online:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wbai.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.wbai.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Archived at: <a href="https://www.wbai.org/archive.php"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.wbai.org/archive.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report</b></span><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Web: <a href="https://twitter.com/bbridgesradio">http://buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/</a><br />Facebook:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/building.bridges.radio">https://www.facebook.com/building.bridges.radio</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Twitter: </span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="https://twitter.com/bbridgesradio">@bbridgesradio</a></span></span></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2019/01/january-14-radio-interview-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-3455816206617919024Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:07:00 +00002018-12-21T15:35:54.640-05:00DREAM Actinterviewslegal status“Politics of Immigration” Co-author Featured in Swiss WeeklyJane Guskin is quoted extensively in an article run in August by the Swiss German-language newsweekly <i>WOZ.</i>The full article is available in German at&nbsp;<a href="https://static.woz.ch/1833/us-migrationspolitik/coming-out-einer-papierlosen">https://static.woz.ch/1833/us-migrationspolitik/coming-out-einer-papierlosen</a><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Below is a translation of the section where Guskin is quoted.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GieycwGA6j8/XBwsZgSk_xI/AAAAAAAACXM/LTgNnjueHkIph8-kM9sGxrpk7_s1Cp4iACLcBGAs/s1600/WOZarticle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="492" height="293" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GieycwGA6j8/XBwsZgSk_xI/AAAAAAAACXM/LTgNnjueHkIph8-kM9sGxrpk7_s1Cp4iACLcBGAs/s320/WOZarticle.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The "Coming Out" of an Undocumented Immigrant</span></b></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ever since Donald Trump became US President, the eleven million paperless people have been living in greater fear than ever before. A lot is at stake, especially for undocumented youths like Cecilia.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>By Caspar Shaller, WOZ</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>August 16, 2018</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>...</b><span style="background-color: white;">Many [undocumented immigrants] have had bad experiences with going public, says Jane Guskin. She researches global migration at the City University of New York, has been active in the asylum rights movement since the 1980s, and is co-author of the book </span><i style="background-color: white;">The Politics of Immigration</i><span style="background-color: white;">, which is considered a standard leftist reference book on US immigration policy. She suggests meeting in a Bengali restaurant in Queens, the urban district with the highest foreign-born population density in the country.</span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"When Daca was introduced, there was great skepticism in the community," says Guskin. "To qualify, you had to tell the state where you live and work, where you go to school." Many were afraid that this information could be used against them. "It turns out they were right," says Guskin grimly. "Some people go to the immigration office for their annual appointment and are picked up and deported by the ICE agency!"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">American media are full of reports of the consequences of this uncertainty: Mexican citizens storm the consulates to renew their passports so they can quickly leave the US in an emergency. The head of a large New York hospital reported at a press conference that migrants were shunning health care institutions. Instead, they would place injured or sick relatives in front of the emergency room door and run away. And because the hurdles are high, the number of new applications for Daca has fallen sharply. "It costs $ 500 to apply. How can you pay for it if you have to work off the books?" Guskin asks. In addition, the forms are so complex that only lawyers can fill them out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, Daca is just a poor compromise, says the longtime activist Guskin. There is no path to naturalization. No one is really willing to improve the legal situation of migrants. For decades the Republicans have been presenting themselves as protectors of an idealized America "from the foreign hordes," but in practice they have shown increasing interest in allowing a steady influx of cheap labor -- "completely disenfranchised, of course," says Guskin. "No one sets up a union or demands a minimum wage if the boss can threaten to call the immigration police."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This deception of the xenophobic Republican base was one of the reasons for Trump's electoral success. The Democrats, on the other hand, like to see themselves as defenders of minorities. But in reality, hardly any concrete action followed the inclusive rhetoric. At most there might be some little goodies before elections, if Democrats wanted to secure the votes of Latinos and Latinas. This is one of the reasons why many young migrants feel that the concept of "Dreamers" has become politically exploited. In the last elections less Latinas and Latinos voted for Hillary Clinton than expected.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="field-authorline" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Obama, a Democrat, was the president who has deported the most people in US history," says Guskin. During his tenure, more than three million people were expelled. These mass deportations, the extension of the prison system and the militarization of the borders do not make Obama appear in the eyes of many migrants as the savior he is for many liberal Americans. He even introduced a fingerprint for migrants. The director of a migration organization told the <i>New York Review of Books</i> magazine: "Obama built this machine and then handed the keys to a maniac."</span><b style="font-family: inherit;">...</b></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/12/politics-of-immigration-co-author.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-658309291783322793Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:39:00 +00002018-12-19T09:01:38.191-05:00dialoguesmediaorganizingImmigration: Looking Ahead to 2019It’s clear that immigration issues will continue to occupy much of the political discourse next year, and so will misinformation. A lot will depend on how effectively people at the grassroots work to counter the myths and distortions.<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;"><b><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/immigration-dialogues-fall-2018-calendar.html">This fall</a></b> we participated in five <b><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/">dialogues on immigration</a></b> in the New York City area. We’re hoping to do more next year; please contact us at <b><a href="mailto:thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com">thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com</a></b>if you’re interested in sponsoring an event. But we don’t want to be the only ones: we’d like to see as many people as possible holding their own dialogues. You can watch a <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/families4freedom/videos/vb.105165912665/270994300285902/">full dialogue</a>,</b>&nbsp;sponsored by the multi-ethnic human rights organization&nbsp;<b><a href="https://familiesforfreedom.org/">Families For Freedom</a></b>&nbsp;in New York on November 29 (the orientation is corrected after the first six and a half minutes).&nbsp;But remember: no two dialogues are the same. The participants on November 29 were mostly immigrants or sympathizers; other dialogues include people with opposing views, which we need take seriously and address with respect.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;">There are many other educational resources. One is a series of email “lessons” offered by the <b><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/">Pew Research Center</a></b> this fall. These deal with basic facts about immigration: the actual number of immigrants, how many have legal status and how many don’t, the longterm demographic effects, and how opinions on immigration have shifted over the years. People might be surprised to learn how often the facts run counter to the general impressions people have. Go <b><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/16/want-to-understand-u-s-immigration-weve-got-an-email-course-for-you/">here</a></b>to have the emails sent to you.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A3h95oUYpLk/XBEdD-epdcI/AAAAAAAACW0/8PHJ3W36G8MCkTGd7jYRNi8VrqIrbzXTQCLcBGAs/s1600/Pew-Undocumented1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="600" height="209" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A3h95oUYpLk/XBEdD-epdcI/AAAAAAAACW0/8PHJ3W36G8MCkTGd7jYRNi8VrqIrbzXTQCLcBGAs/s400/Pew-Undocumented1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So what do we need a wall for? To keep them from leaving?</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;">Interestingly, the Pew course is already a little out of date. While the media continue to talk about the “influx” of undocumented immigrants, Pew’s <b><a href="http://www.pewhispanic.org/2018/11/27/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-total-dips-to-lowest-level-in-a-decade/">latest study</a></b> of the undocumented population indicates that it has continued to fall—from an estimated high of 12.2 million in 2007 to some 10.7 million in 2016. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;">Finally, for last-minute shoppers: Do you need a present for someone who has questions about immigration policy? There’s still time to order <i>The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers </i><b><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 0in; color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/product/politics_of_immigration/">here</a></span></b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt;">, or else from your favorite bookseller.</span></div><br /><i><b>Update, 12/19/18:</b>&nbsp;Pew Research has now revised its email course to reflect the new data on the undocumented population.</i>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/12/immigration-looking-ahead-to-2019.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-3435363779720687018Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:38:00 +00002018-12-17T13:40:38.149-05:00bordercrimeorganizingresistanceDecember 18th: Drop the Charges!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3Ct70h9cpU/XBfr1itM9hI/AAAAAAAACXA/9KBruIRZUVEs5EQlixeAXa1GypFdNA_5gCLcBGAs/s1600/NoMoreDeathsCallIn.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g3Ct70h9cpU/XBfr1itM9hI/AAAAAAAACXA/9KBruIRZUVEs5EQlixeAXa1GypFdNA_5gCLcBGAs/s400/NoMoreDeathsCallIn.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><b>From <a href="http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/">No More Deaths/No Más Muertes</a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold;"><b>December 16, 2018</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">On December 18th, International Migrants Day, join us in calling on the US Attorney's Office to drop <a href="http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/">all charges</a> against No More Deaths volunteers.&nbsp; Nine volunteers are currently facing federal charges and lengthy jail sentences for their work providing humanitarian aid in the borderlands. Elizabeth Strange has the power to drop the charges and cease these prosecutions immediately.&nbsp; Join us in demanding an end to federal harassment and prosecution of aid workers.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;">For more information: </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 242.25pt;"><a href="http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/december-18th-national-call-in-day/">http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/december-18th-national-call-in-day/</a></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/12/december-18th-drop-charges.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-7119017456105196284Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:07:00 +00002018-12-05T11:59:06.192-05:00deportationdetentiondialoguesWatch the November 29 Families For Freedom Participatory Dialogue<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B85uT4XKWIo/XAQIHu05crI/AAAAAAAACWo/2yOvm4QzaeIZ0rBvWuUwSJWOwHMAIwMYQCLcBGAs/s1600/FFF112918Pix.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="433" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B85uT4XKWIo/XAQIHu05crI/AAAAAAAACWo/2yOvm4QzaeIZ0rBvWuUwSJWOwHMAIwMYQCLcBGAs/s400/FFF112918Pix.png" width="316" /></a>On November 29 <a href="https://familiesforfreedom.org/"><b>Families For Freedom</b></a> sponsored a participatory dialogue on deportation and immigration detention with the co-authors of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/"><b>The Politics of Immigration</b></a></i>. The event was live-streamed and can be viewed on the&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/families4freedom/videos/vb.105165912665/270994300285902/">Families For Freedom Facebook page</a></b>.</div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Many thanks to Families For Freedom for giving us the opportunity to be part of this intense discussion. With the present intense focus on immigration, it’s more important than ever for people to share their views and experiences. We look forward to facilitating more dialogues like this one next years, and we encourage other people and groups to schedule their own discussions.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Not all dialogues are the same. The November 29 group included a number of people who were able to talk about their personal experiences with detention and deportation. Other dialogues have involved people who expressed very different views on immigration. For us the goal is to get these various ideas out in the open so that people can check them against their own experiences and those that others have had.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Note: the view is vertical at the beginning, but it’s corrected after a few minutes.http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/12/watch-november-29-families-for-freedom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-5276528049404388356Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:44:00 +00002018-11-16T17:53:10.348-05:00dialoguesImmigration Dialogues: Fall 2018 Calendar<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>November 29:</b>&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/immigration-dialogue-enforcement.html">Immigration Dialogue: Enforcement, Detention &amp; Deportation</a></i></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><div class="MsoNormal">Join Families for Freedom for a participatory dialogue around immigration enforcement, detention and deportation with Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of <i>The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers</i>. We will discuss the state of immigration—with a focus on enforcement, detention, and the relationship between the immigration and criminal legal systems—in our current political environment. Come with questions!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Thursday, November 29, 2018, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm, at The People's Forum, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/320+W+37th+St,+New+York,+NY+10018/@40.7544544,-73.9935379,20z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c259ad735f2a7b:0xf886bd6e5a6a73a0!8m2!3d40.7544504!4d-73.9932643"><b>320 West 37th Street, New York, New York 10018</b></a>. Hosted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/families4freedom/"><b>Families for Freedom</b></a>. Info: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1893919017329269/"><b>https://www.facebook.com/events/1893919017329269/</b></a>&nbsp;.</i></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Earlier this Fall...</i><br /><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">October 10</span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">:&nbsp;</span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/09/delveinto-tough-questions-about.html">Immigration Dialogue at Suffolk County Community College</a></span></i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">Delve into tough questions about immigration with the authors of&nbsp;</span><i><b>The Politics of Immigration</b>.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Wednesday, October 10,<b>&nbsp;</b>9:30 am-10:45 am and 11:00 am-12:15 pm, at I-115, Islip Arts Building, Suffolk County Community College,&nbsp;<span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Suffolk+County+Community+College/@40.8469782,-73.056054,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e847a546bc416d:0xc0ffa001f7339611!8m2!3d40.8469782!4d-73.0538599"><span style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Ammerman Campus, 533 College Rd, Selden, NY 11784</b></span></a>. Free and open to the public.&nbsp;</span>Sponsored by Office of Campus Activities, Student Leadership Development, and Foreign Languages and ESL. For information, call 631-451-4117 or the Center for Social Justice and Human Understanding,&nbsp;<span style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://facebook.com/CSJHU"><b>Facebook.com/CSJHU</b></a>.</span></i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>October 29:</b>&nbsp;<i><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/deep-dive-into-immigration-part-1-mae.html">Deep Dive Into Immigration, Part 1</a></i></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText2">Immigration history with Columbia University professor Mae Ngai, a national authority on the subject,. The three-part series is an exploration into our immigration laws and how they have been applied over the years, the role immigration has played in our country, and the reality of immigration today.<br /><br /><i>Monday, October 29,&nbsp;</i><i>6:00 pm-7:30 pm, at Forest Hills Public Library,<b>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/108-19+71st+Ave,+Flushing,+NY+11375/@40.7221113,-73.8452207,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25e276db0afa9:0x481f65f5b0fc8476!8m2!3d40.7221113!4d-73.843032">108-19 71st Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375</a>,&nbsp;</b>718-268-7934<b>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b>Sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.letstalkdemocracy.org/"><b>Let's Talk Democracy</b></a></i><b><i>&nbsp;</i></b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span><br /><div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>November 2</b><b>:</b>&nbsp;</span><i><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/immigrant-rights-dialogue-in-time-of.html">Immigrant Rights: Dialogue in a Time of Crisis</a></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Bring your questions and thoughts about immigration to this participatory workshop facilitated by Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of&nbsp;<i>The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers</i>.&nbsp; Together we will strengthen our skills to engage more effectively in productive dialogue.</span></span><br /><i><span lang="EN"><br /></span></i><i><span lang="EN">Friday, November 2, 6:30 pm, at Lutheran&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN">Church of the Good Shepherd, Soul Cafe,&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/7420+4th+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11209/@40.6313717,-74.0274328,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2455999b07a6d:0x3c7030a3b74608a0!8m2!3d40.6313717!4d-74.0252441">7420 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11029</a>.</b></span><span lang="EN">&nbsp;RSVP: Southwest Brooklyn Lutheran Council,&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:southwestBLC@gmail.com"><b>southwestBLC@gmail.com</b></a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>November 8:</b><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span><i><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/deep-dive-into-immigration-parts-2-and.html">Deep Dive Into Immigration, Part 2</a></i></span><br /><div class="MsoBodyText2">“Getting at the Roots,<span style="font-size: 12pt;">”</span>&nbsp;with Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/">The Politics of Immigration</a></i>. The three-part series is an exploration into our immigration laws and how they have been applied over the years, the role immigration has played in our country, and the reality of immigration today.<br /><br /><i>Thursday, November 8,&nbsp;</i><i>6:00 pm-7:30 pm, at Forest Hills Public Library,<b>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/108-19+71st+Ave,+Flushing,+NY+11375/@40.7221113,-73.8452207,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25e276db0afa9:0x481f65f5b0fc8476!8m2!3d40.7221113!4d-73.843032">108-19 71st Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375</a>,&nbsp;</b>718-268-7934<b>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b>Sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.letstalkdemocracy.org/"><b>Let's Talk Democracy</b></a></i><b><i>&nbsp;</i></b>&nbsp; <br /><div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>November 15:</b>&nbsp;<i><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/deep-dive-into-immigration-parts-2-and.html">Deep Dive Into Immigration, Part 3</a></i></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2">“The Money Question," with Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/">The Politics of Immigration</a></i>. The three-part series is an exploration into our immigration laws and how they have been applied over the years, the role immigration has played in our country, and the reality of immigration today.<br /><br /><i>Thursday, November 15,&nbsp;</i><i>6:00 pm-7:30 pm, at Forest Hills Public Library,<b>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/108-19+71st+Ave,+Flushing,+NY+11375/@40.7221113,-73.8452207,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25e276db0afa9:0x481f65f5b0fc8476!8m2!3d40.7221113!4d-73.843032">108-19 71st Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375</a>,&nbsp;</b>718-268-7934<b>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b>Sponsored by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.letstalkdemocracy.org/"><b>Let's Talk Democracy</b></a></i><b><i>&nbsp;</i></b>&nbsp; <br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">For more on immigration dialogues:</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/">https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/</a></span></b></div></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/immigration-dialogues-fall-2018-calendar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-4787449939804367786Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:45:00 +00002018-11-14T15:50:53.406-05:00borderlabormediaorganizingresistanceresourcesUpdates: Border Encuentro, Sanctuary Caravan, “Resistance at Tule Lake,” Farmworker Organizing<b><span style="font-size: large;">SOA Watch Border Encuentro 2018</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f_9vehpshRs/W-yGeibV6ZI/AAAAAAAACVo/vhrRhV4kc5Q2L1yTn1JixCfuFYroWii3wCLcBGAs/s1600/SOAWEncuentro2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="302" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f_9vehpshRs/W-yGeibV6ZI/AAAAAAAACVo/vhrRhV4kc5Q2L1yTn1JixCfuFYroWii3wCLcBGAs/s1600/SOAWEncuentro2018.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Time is flying and in less than 2 months we will converge at the US/Mexico border in ambos Nogales for our 3rd SOA Watch Border Encuentro this November 16-18: Dismantle Border Imperialism! Struggle, Create, Power to the People!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As we continue planning for this year's 3rd Encuentro, we want to share important updates with you, including our promotional video created by Olmeca, the weekend schedule of events and ways to support our largest annual gathering. We are excited to share our demands for this year, and invite you to join us in generating the biggest possible impact alongside other coalition groups and allies by endorsing this year's Encuentro.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">More information at:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.soaw.org/border-encuentro/">https://www.soaw.org/border-encuentro/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Join the Sanctuary Caravan</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tvugnPab81k/W-yGnhDbP5I/AAAAAAAACVs/L0_K93GjrFkb9IHtx8m9RDvodw-DtKtCQCLcBGAs/s1600/Sanctuary_Caravan_Art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="997" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tvugnPab81k/W-yGnhDbP5I/AAAAAAAACVs/L0_K93GjrFkb9IHtx8m9RDvodw-DtKtCQCLcBGAs/s200/Sanctuary_Caravan_Art.jpg" width="124" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">The New Sanctuary Coalition is resolved to choose the side of liberty and equality. We are resolved to sacrifice in solidarity with those leaders of liberty and pioneers of equality who are nonviolently asserting their right to migrate by moving their caravan of brave souls across the U.S./Mexican border. We are resolved to form a U.S. Caravan of supporters who will meet the Central American Caravan in Mexico, witness their movement, and accompany them into the U.S. At the border, we will assist those seeking entry with their demands to enter the US without losing their liberty.[…]</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">More information at:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.sanctuarycaravan.org/">https://www.sanctuarycaravan.org/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"Resistance at Tule Lake" is Now Available on DVD &amp; iTunes!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-618TgbiLLCc/W-yHKPCUXFI/AAAAAAAACWQ/N8Am-N3J5ys8d63Udb3sl3jEijARW1z_QCEwYBhgL/s1600/ResistanceTuleLake4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-618TgbiLLCc/W-yHKPCUXFI/AAAAAAAACWQ/N8Am-N3J5ys8d63Udb3sl3jEijARW1z_QCEwYBhgL/s200/ResistanceTuleLake4.jpg" width="200" /></a>The documentary on resistance to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans has screened in</div>over 20 cities across the country since its premiere at CAAMFest 2017. The maker are still getting requests for more ways people can see&nbsp;<i>Resistan.ce at Tule Lake.</i><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The film is now available on DVD and iTunes! Demand for the film has been so high on the Netflix queue that they also jumped on board and are now offering the film for disc rental.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">More information at:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/b552462e5897/ylir49fjsq-2139145">https://mailchi.mp/b552462e5897/ylir49fjsq-2139145</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 9.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Cross-Border Farmworker Rebellion</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Workers in the berry fields of the United States and Mexico have the same transnational employers. Now, farmworker unions in those two nations have begun to work together.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PLiIzYFtlcA/W-yIbqzrP-I/AAAAAAAACWY/x4kgt1_gdDwwbm9Ycz9Ahci0vyi8_mZnACLcBGAs/s1600/BaconFarmworkerRebellion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="576" height="215" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PLiIzYFtlcA/W-yIbqzrP-I/AAAAAAAACWY/x4kgt1_gdDwwbm9Ycz9Ahci0vyi8_mZnACLcBGAs/s320/BaconFarmworkerRebellion.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The union card. Photo: David Bacon</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">By David Bacon, <i>The American Prospect</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">October 31, 2018</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Surrounded by blueberry and alfalfa fields near Sumas, Washington, just a few miles from the Canadian border, a group of workers last week stood in a circle behind a trailer, itemizing a long list of complaints about the grower they work for. Lorenzo Sanchez, the oldest, pointed to the trailer his family rents for $800 a month. On one side, the wooden steps and porch have rotted through. “The toilet backs up,” he said. “Water leaks in when it rains. The stove doesn't work.”[…]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="Default" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Read the full article:<br /></span><a href="https://igc.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&amp;id=05fd571198&amp;e=1548af4401" target="_blank"><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #336699;">https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-cross-border-farmworker-rebellion.html</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><br /></span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #336699;"><a href="https://igc.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&amp;id=028621e300&amp;e=1548af4401" target="_blank">http://prospect.org/article/cross-border-farmworker-rebellion</a></span></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/11/updates-border-encuentro-sanctuary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-2457447696710349844Sat, 10 Nov 2018 20:30:00 +00002018-11-10T15:40:11.805-05:00articlesrefugeesroot causesThe US Must Take Responsibility for Asylum Seekers and the History That Drives Them<div class="MsoNormal"><i>Anyone who has followed the history of US involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean knows that the current crises in the region are absolutely “our problem.”</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>By David L. Wilson, <i>Truthout</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>November 10, 2018</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Most people are capable of holding two or more conflicting ideas on any given issue. Immigration is no exception.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">A large segment of the US public was horrified in May and June when they saw the Trump administration snatching toddlers away from Central American mothers who arrived at the US border seeking asylum. Many would still be appalled if they knew that the White House is seeking to <b><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/12/17969780/family-separation-trump-plan-children-orphans">continue the practice</a></b> in a different form. Most undoubtedly feel genuine sympathy for young people trying to escape violent gangs or abusive partners. Still, a lot of these same sympathetic Americans don’t actually want the asylum seekers to come here.[...]</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-must-take-responsibility-for-asylum-seekers-and-their-history/">https://truthout.org/articles/us-must-take-responsibility-for-asylum-seekers-and-their-history/</a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VzIqoysDmZ4/W-c_Yw3pQbI/AAAAAAAACVY/Ar_ggctfRXQR7kklgSKjCtJWpqR35U3iwCLcBGAs/s1600/CaravanKids1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1200" height="260" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VzIqoysDmZ4/W-c_Yw3pQbI/AAAAAAAACVY/Ar_ggctfRXQR7kklgSKjCtJWpqR35U3iwCLcBGAs/s400/CaravanKids1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Pedro Pardo, AFP/Getty Images</td></tr></tbody></table><br />http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-us-must-take-responsibility-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-4702948850743403738Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:25:00 +00002018-11-14T15:31:35.282-05:00birthright citizenshiplegal statuspoliticsBook Excerpt: Is Birthright Citizenship a “Magnet” for Unauthorized Immigration? <div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rz3MlpuTkeU/W9odYLZruqI/AAAAAAAACVM/74q5Ge7m_Qkp2e9Xn36uo-FtDLOKlZsSQCEwYBhgL/s1600/Graham.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="590" height="217" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rz3MlpuTkeU/W9odYLZruqI/AAAAAAAACVM/74q5Ge7m_Qkp2e9Xn36uo-FtDLOKlZsSQCEwYBhgL/s320/Graham.png" width="320" /></a></div><i>On October 30 Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1057363981042675713">announced</a>that he would introduce legislation to challenge birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants. “[I]t has become a magnet for illegal immigration in modern times,” the senator claimed. Many immigration&nbsp;</i><i>opponents have asserted this, but they’re rarely challenged to provide proof.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>We take a look at the available evidence in </i>The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers<i>, second edition, Chapter 4, “Why Can’t They Just ‘Get Legal’?”:</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Children born in the United States are U.S. citizens, even if their parents are out-of-status immigrants. Opponents of immigration like to call such children “anchor babies,” implying that immigrant parents use their U.S.-born children as a way to establish themselves here. In July 2010 Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claimed on Fox News that unauthorized women come to the United States simply to “drop and leave” their babies.<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Most citizen children of undocumented immigrants are actually born some time after their parents have settled in the United States, according to a study of babies born to immigrants from March 2009 to March 2010. Just 9 percent of the out-of-status parents had arrived in 2008 or later; most had been in the United States for a number of years when the babies were born—30 percent had arrived between 2004 and 2007, and 61 percent arrived before 2004. For its October 2005 survey, Bendixen &amp; Associates asked undocumented immigrants to give their reasons for migrating to the United States. The respondents overwhelmingly cited work opportunities; having “anchor babies” didn’t even rate a mention.<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In any case, having a U.S. citizen child doesn’t help undocumented immigrants gain legal status, or even protect them from deportation. U.S. citizens have to be at least twenty-one years old to sponsor their parents for legal residency. Each year, thousands of people who have U.S.-born children are deported, leaving families shattered. A 2012 study by the New York University School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic found that 87 percent of New York City immigration cases involving parents of U.S. citizen children between 2005 and 2010 ended in deportation….<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">If we ended birthright citizenship, what status would the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants have? Would they <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">also be undocumented? In that case, ending birthright citizenship would <i>increase </i>the number of undocumented people in the country; the undocumented population would be at least 44 percent larger by 2050, according to a projection by the nonprofit Migration Policy Institute project.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In other words, revoking the country’s long tradition of granting citizenship to everyone born here would expand and make permanent an underclass of vulnerable, easily exploited people without full rights—very much like the U.S. South under Jim Crow laws or South Africa under&nbsp;</span>apartheid.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444;">[We’re occasionally posting excerpts from the second edition of<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span></i><span style="background: white; color: #444444;">The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers<i>. You can order<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/product/politics_of_immigration/"><b><span style="color: black;">here</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>or from your favorite bookseller.]</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/book-excerpt-is-birthright-citizenship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-5720758833054282838Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:32:00 +00002018-10-26T16:32:29.678-04:00crimedeportationdetentionlegal statusorganizingpoliticsresistanceHow can we make “Abolish ICE” a Reality?<i>Two of the immigrant rights movement’s historic demands provide a basis for actually closing the agency, and beyond that for building a movement to demand more fundamental changes.</i><br /><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">By David L. Wilson, <i>MR Online</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>October 25, 2018</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Over the past few months immigrant rights activism has come to be defined largely by a demand to “abolish ICE.” The drive to close down Immigration and Customs Enforcement—a Department of Homeland Security agency responsible for internal enforcement of immigration laws—has figured in headlines, garnered support from activists and a few Democratic politicians, and provoked furious denunciations from conservatives. But despite the attention there seems to be little agreement on what’s meant by the phrase, or on how to turn it into a reality.[...]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Read the full article:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://mronline.org/2018/10/25/how-can-we-make-abolish-ice-a-reality/">https://mronline.org/2018/10/25/how-can-we-make-abolish-ice-a-reality/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3l4D39GeWJ4/W9N5lB-UNHI/AAAAAAAACU8/5Y91NJ3r2skuiXATBY4a7BgZTGh4EPqWQCLcBGAs/s1600/AbolishICEMG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3l4D39GeWJ4/W9N5lB-UNHI/AAAAAAAACU8/5Y91NJ3r2skuiXATBY4a7BgZTGh4EPqWQCLcBGAs/s400/AbolishICEMG.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DSA members protest in New York, June 2018. Photo: Marty Goodman</td></tr></tbody></table>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-can-we-make-abolish-ice-reality.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-5420603628540598855Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:05:00 +00002018-10-24T16:10:56.575-04:00dialoguesImmigration Dialogue: Enforcement, Detention & Deportation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vv9j_JDvWR4/W9DQap0Z0rI/AAAAAAAACUs/1M_Y4BeeuVkzL_E99vgFwfKFOlt8iHg8gCLcBGAs/s1600/FFF112918Event.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="901" height="150" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vv9j_JDvWR4/W9DQap0Z0rI/AAAAAAAACUs/1M_Y4BeeuVkzL_E99vgFwfKFOlt8iHg8gCLcBGAs/s400/FFF112918Event.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Join Families for Freedom for a participatory dialogue around immigration enforcement, detention and deportation with Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of <i><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/"><b>The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers</b></a></i>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Thursday, November 29, 2018</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>6:30 pm–8:00 pm</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>The People's Forum</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/320+W+37th+St,+New+York,+NY+10018/@40.7544544,-73.9935379,20z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c259ad735f2a7b:0xf886bd6e5a6a73a0!8m2!3d40.7544504!4d-73.9932643">320 West 37th Street, New York, New York 10018</a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We will discuss the state of immigration—with a focus on enforcement, detention, and the relationship between the immigration and criminal legal systems—in our current political environment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Come with questions!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Hosted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/families4freedom/"><b>Families for Freedom</b></a><br />Info: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1893919017329269/"><b>https://www.facebook.com/events/1893919017329269/</b></a><br /><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For more on immigration dialogues:</span></b><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none;">https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/</a></span></b>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/immigration-dialogue-enforcement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-6611022936207551257Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:17:00 +00002018-10-21T15:20:59.057-04:00detentionorganizingpoliticsFamilies For Freedom: “Fight to Win”<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MRPbTy5dc6Y/W8zQK21feDI/AAAAAAAACUQ/daSMSYw0kiQVJsxSkU4qdk4QvpOELu3OgCLcBGAs/s1600/HudsonCounty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="600" height="247" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MRPbTy5dc6Y/W8zQK21feDI/AAAAAAAACUQ/daSMSYw0kiQVJsxSkU4qdk4QvpOELu3OgCLcBGAs/s400/HudsonCounty.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><i>This is an excerpt from the <a href="https://familiesforfreedom.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&amp;id=2">Families For Freedom</a> newsletter for September, treating the important issue of activist approaches to local ICE detention contracts. To subscribe, email <b><a href="mailto:info@familiesforfreedom.org">info@familiesforfreedom.org</a></b>; you can contribute to FFF <b><a href="https://familiesforfreedom.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&amp;id=2">here</a></b>.)—TPOI editor.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fight to Win<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://familiesforfreedom.org/"><b>Families For Freedom</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">September 28, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In early September, Hudson County <b><a href="https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018/09/hudson_county_to_exit_controversial_ice_contract.html">announced</a></b>their intent to phase out their detention contract with ICE by 2020. The news came after concerted efforts by local faith-based and advocacy groups to end the contract, and <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/religious-leaders-sue-void-hudson-county-ice-vote-which-freeholder-board-carried-out"><b>a lawsuit</b></a> filed by the ACLU that targeted the Freeholders' shady actions in trying to get the contract renewed without community input. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The potential cancellation of ICE's contract in Hudson represents political strength: it would not be possible without growing support in our movement against immigration detention, if ICE's name did not now correctly represent malice and evil to the general public. Yet at the same time, it counteracts another win that also represented political strength, the establishment of the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project. On the one hand, the win of access to indispensable legal representation; on the other, the win of building political power among allies outside. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Critics of the phase-out are concerned that people detained in Hudson will be moved to remote detention centers, far from their families and attorneys. NYIFUP lawyers <b><a href="https://www.bronxdefenders.org/nyc-public-defenders-implore-hudson-county-executive-to-postpone-vote-on-phase-out-of-hudson-county-jail-contract-with-ice/">have come out</a></b> in strong opposition to the planned phase-out on these grounds. In support of their position stand previous incidents, like when trans women incarcerated by ICE in Santa Ana City Jail, close to a dense network of support and services groups, <b><a href="https://splinternews.com/how-trans-ice-detainees-ended-up-in-a-men-s-detention-c-1795818417">were moved far away</a></b> to a remote facility in rural New Mexico. Supporters of the Hudson contract ending—and of the growing number of other similar successes around the country—are behind it because of the political momentum it both creates and represents. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Beyond these two positions, there is also the question of efficacy. One of the organizations involved in the campaign against the Hudson contract stated that in order to abolish ICE "we must destroy ICE's capacity to incarcerate people." The statement is noble but the problem with it lies in the fact that this political win does not affect ICE's ability to incarcerate people. Anything that we can do to hinder ICE—to make 'em bleed—is absolutely worth doing, but we must understand that contracts with local jails and private prison companies come and go, whether in scandal or in silence. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Back in 2009-10, after people detained in Varick Street in Manhattan went on hunger strikes to draw attention to horrific conditions there, the jail stopped incarcerating people, many of whom would not be jailed in Hudson. But this decision was made by ICE, and its purpose was to get away from local scrutiny. More recently, in the wake of an 18-month-old baby being killed by her <b><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/29/guatemalan-mother-blames-immigration-facility-baby-death/1135469002/">contact with the detention and deportation system</a></b>, the City of Eloy <b><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2018/09/26/eloy-exits-deal-let-company-run-immigration-detention-center/1438185002/">pulled their contract</a></b> with ICE for a family detention in South Texas. This too was a decision supported by ICE, and the contract has now been redrawn, this time with the city of Dilley, TX. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Across the country, more counties and cities are folding detention contracts with ICE, both under public pressure and without it. But as long as ending such contracts doesn't get people free, we have to ask ourselves what value these closures have. In contrast to ending contracts that promote information sharing between local law enforcement and ICE, or legislation barring ICE from certain areas, cancelling detention contracts more than likely just means relocating jails. Abolition doesn't mean the transporting of incarcerated people from county to county, nor the opportunity for new profit to be spun from immiseration; it means no more people locked up. What value do these campaigns have if the results resemble ICE's own past actions, and fail to promote political power among those incarcerated in these facilities? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To that point, it is noteworthy that in the debate that has unfolded about whether this closure is of value, the voices of the directly affected have been relatively absent. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Lawyers in movement are often correctly criticized for failing to see the forest for the trees, for working timidly within what's presently possible instead of pushing the boundaries of what is possible. But the concerns and criticisms raised by the lawyers here need not lead to a purely reformist attitude, focused only on procedural justice instead of actual justice. The concerns invite us who believe in abolishing ICE and the entire prison industrial complex to continue asking the question: how can we be effective? How do we ensure our fights are changing the conditions people suffer under, and not providing an outlet for the moral outrage of spectators? How do we fight to win?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VMMyfg88uNk/W8zQWmAZbTI/AAAAAAAACUU/mI6PICV8rAcxyes7gqwkqqV5kYXg0NLHACLcBGAs/s1600/FFFLogob_w_400x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VMMyfg88uNk/W8zQWmAZbTI/AAAAAAAACUU/mI6PICV8rAcxyes7gqwkqqV5kYXg0NLHACLcBGAs/s200/FFFLogob_w_400x400.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/families-for-freedom-fight-to-win.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-3174078606944107882Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:55:00 +00002018-10-21T15:18:10.076-04:00dialoguesDeep Dive Into Immigration, Part 1: Mae Ngai on the History of Immigration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5UkZ_R79ol0/W7YZ_8fY8MI/AAAAAAAACSo/BeUgXf_XWwwxyBU_WgbRFu4YI5iGoCNiQCLcBGAs/s1600/mae-ngai-640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="780" height="205" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5UkZ_R79ol0/W7YZ_8fY8MI/AAAAAAAACSo/BeUgXf_XWwwxyBU_WgbRFu4YI5iGoCNiQCLcBGAs/s400/mae-ngai-640.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Please join us for an important and timely exploration into our immigration laws and how they have been applied over the years, the role immigration has played in our country, and the reality of immigration today.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Monday, October 29, 2018, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At Forest Hills Public Library</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">1<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/108-19+71st+Ave,+Flushing,+NY+11375/@40.7221113,-73.8452207,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25e276db0afa9:0x481f65f5b0fc8476!8m2!3d40.7221113!4d-73.843032">08-19 71st Avenue<o:p></o:p></a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/108-19+71st+Ave,+Flushing,+NY+11375/@40.7221113,-73.8452207,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25e276db0afa9:0x481f65f5b0fc8476!8m2!3d40.7221113!4d-73.843032">Forest Hills, NY 11375</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">(718) 268-7934</span></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal">E F M R to 71/Continental Ave.</div>LIRR | Q23 Q60 Q64</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Mae Ngai, a national authority on the history of immigration and professor at Columbia University, will kick off our three-week series on immigration.<br /><br /><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Sponsor:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.letstalkdemocracy.org/">Let's Talk Democracy</a></span></b></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/deep-dive-into-immigration-part-1-mae.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-405568564693605408Thu, 18 Oct 2018 20:41:00 +00002018-10-20T11:28:36.165-04:00dialoguesImmigrant Rights: Dialogue in a Time of Crisis/ Los Derechos de los Migrantes<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->&nbsp;<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">A participatory workshop </span><i><b>[</b>Espa</i></span><span style="text-align: center;"><i>ñol abajo<span style="font-size: 12pt;">]</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Friday, November 2,&nbsp;</span>2018, 6:30 pm</span></b></div><div style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"><b><span lang="EN">Lutheran Church o</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN">f the Good Shepherd</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/7420+4th+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11209/@40.6313717,-74.0274328,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2455999b07a6d:0x3c7030a3b74608a0!8m2!3d40.6313717!4d-74.0252441">7420 4th Avenue, Soul Café, Brooklyn, NY 11029</a></span></b><i><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Bring your questions and thoughts about immigration to this participatory workshop facilitated by Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of <i>The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers</i>.&nbsp; Together we will strengthen our skills to engage more effectively in productive dialogue when people ask questions such as:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zaFVOhfeEoY/W8gIFR6AgpI/AAAAAAAACT8/HxO7739eCfILj3GFLfwzgDHeE34-hfFZACLcBGAs/s1600/SouthBknEng.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="459" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zaFVOhfeEoY/W8gIFR6AgpI/AAAAAAAACT8/HxO7739eCfILj3GFLfwzgDHeE34-hfFZACLcBGAs/s320/SouthBknEng.png" width="309" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: &quot;symbol&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN">Why do so many people come here “illegally”? Why don't they just wait in line?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: &quot;symbol&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN">If someone committed a crime in this country, why shouldn't they be deported?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: &quot;symbol&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN">Don't unauthorized immigrants push down wages for everyone?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN" style="font-family: &quot;symbol&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">·<span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN">Can we really afford to have so many immigrants here?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-autospace: none;"><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN">The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN"> </span></b><span lang="EN">(Second Edition)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN">“The Politics of Immigration brilliantly interrogates this urgent subject that defines our time.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN">—Ron Hayduk, San Francisco State University</span></i><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><i><span lang="EN"><br /></span></i><i><span lang="EN"><br /></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Website: <a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/">http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Email: <u><span style="color: #3333ff;"><a href="mailto:thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com"><span style="color: #3333ff;">thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com</span></a></span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">RSVP: </span><a href="mailto:southwestBLC@gmail.com">southwestBLC@gmail.com</a><u><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">(Event organized by Southwest Brooklyn Lutheran Council sub-committee)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large;">Dialogo y taller participativo en medio de esta crisis</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;;">&nbsp;</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt;">Viernes, Noviembre 2, @ 6:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN">&nbsp;</span></i><b><span lang="EN">Iglesia Luterana del Buen Pastor</span></b></span><br /><b><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/7420+4th+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11209/@40.6313717,-74.0274328,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2455999b07a6d:0x3c7030a3b74608a0!8m2!3d40.6313717!4d-74.0252441">7420 4th Avenue, Soul Café, Brooklyn, NY&nbsp; 11209</a></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Comunidad, traigan sus inquietudes, preocupaciones y participen en este taller facilitado por&nbsp; Jane Guskin y David Wilson, escritores del libro Las politicas Migratorias: Preguntas y Respuestas. A través de este taller fortaleceremos de una manera más efectiva nuestras habilidades, conocimientos y diálogos cuando se nos pregunte:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pLxXTGvyON8/W8gIA8lwhkI/AAAAAAAACT4/EX0AUuFpOSsR2MoPOcM3C3q67LIHTgJXACLcBGAs/s1600/SouthBknEsp.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="408" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pLxXTGvyON8/W8gIA8lwhkI/AAAAAAAACT4/EX0AUuFpOSsR2MoPOcM3C3q67LIHTgJXACLcBGAs/s320/SouthBknEsp.png" width="261" /></a></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN">Por qué viene migra gente a los Estados Unidos de manera ilegal? Por qué no se forman y esperan su turno?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN">Sí alguien ha cometido un crimen en este país -Estados Unidos-, por qué no deberían ser deportados?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN">Cómo los inmigrantes sin autorización de empleo afectan negativamente el salario de los demás trabajadores?&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -9.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN">Es sustentable para nuestra economia tener tantos inmigrantes con nosotros?</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">&nbsp;</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN">The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (Second Edition)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN">“</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN">Las Politicas Migratorias brillantemente da contestacion a interrogaciones de suma relevancia en nuestro tiempo” —Ron Hayduk, San Francisco State University</span></i><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />Website: <a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/">http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Email: <a href="mailto:thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US">thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Mas información: <a href="mailto:southwestBLC@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US">southwestBLC@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">(Evento organizado por el comite del Consejo de Iglesias del Suroeste de Brooklyn)<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">For more on immigration dialogues:</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/">https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/</a></span></b>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/immigrant-rights-dialogue-in-time-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-412317368978598366Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:57:00 +00002018-10-20T11:05:11.051-04:00dialoguesDeep Dive Into Immigration, Parts 2 and 3: With Jane Guskin and David Wilson<div class="MsoNormal">Please join us for an important and timely exploration into our immigration laws and how they have been applied over the years, the role immigration has played in our country, and the reality of immigration today.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EXWt6teUGh8/W8K9kGwUACI/AAAAAAAACTk/rU_Q-ttmzhkuUHuMHqonmmacw3uXGTCDwCLcBGAs/s1600/ForestHills.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="407" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EXWt6teUGh8/W8K9kGwUACI/AAAAAAAACTk/rU_Q-ttmzhkuUHuMHqonmmacw3uXGTCDwCLcBGAs/s320/ForestHills.png" width="248" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Forest Hills Public Library</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/108-19+71st+Ave,+Flushing,+NY+11375/@40.7221113,-73.8452207,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25e276db0afa9:0x481f65f5b0fc8476!8m2!3d40.7221113!4d-73.843032">108-19 71st Avenue<o:p></o:p></a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/108-19+71st+Ave,+Flushing,+NY+11375/@40.7221113,-73.8452207,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25e276db0afa9:0x481f65f5b0fc8476!8m2!3d40.7221113!4d-73.843032"><b>Forest Hills, NY 11375</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>(718) 268-7934<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">E F M R to 71/Continental Ave.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">LIRR | Q23 Q60 Q64</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Thursday, November 8, 2018, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Getting at the Roots</i> - Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of <i>The Politics of Immigration</i>, will discuss immigration today, including the global, political, and economic forces that shape migration; the racial and political implications of U.S. immigration law, policy, and practice; and related issues.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Thursday, November 15, 2018, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>The Money Question</i> - Jane Guskin and David Wilson continue the immigration discussion with an examination of the relationship of immigrants to jobs and the economy.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><b>Sponsor: <a href="http://www.letstalkdemocracy.org/">Let's Talk Democracy</a></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">For more on immigration dialogues:</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/">https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/</a></span></b>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/deep-dive-into-immigration-parts-2-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-661262279351592641Thu, 11 Oct 2018 01:32:00 +00002018-10-20T11:05:33.343-04:00dialoguesOctober 10: Immigration Dialogue at Suffolk County Community College<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Delve into tough questions about immigration with the authors of&nbsp;</span><i><b><a href="http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/">The Politics of Immigration</a></b>.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6pa4MEYoW5U/W62DQdYD6RI/AAAAAAAACR0/C7lidRjNeOE5O0fs6OuZsgiUQ9vMwyOrwCLcBGAs/s1600/csjhu_politics_immigration_flyer_eng_2018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6pa4MEYoW5U/W62DQdYD6RI/AAAAAAAACR0/C7lidRjNeOE5O0fs6OuZsgiUQ9vMwyOrwCLcBGAs/s320/csjhu_politics_immigration_flyer_eng_2018.jpg" width="247" /></a><br /><!--[endif]--></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why are people in other countries leaving their homes and coming here? What does it mean to be “illegal”? How do immigration raids, prisons, and border walls impact communities? Who suff­ers and who profits from our current system – and what would happen if we transformed it?</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday, October 10, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I-115, Islip Arts Building<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Suffolk County Community College</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Suffolk+County+Community+College/@40.8469782,-73.056054,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e847a546bc416d:0xc0ffa001f7339611!8m2!3d40.8469782!4d-73.0538599">Ammerman Campus, 533 College Rd, Selden, NY 11784</a></span></span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br /><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Free and open to the public</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>A program of the Suffolk County Community College Undocumented Student Task Force, sponsored by Office of Campus Activities, Student Leadership Development, and Foreign Languages and ESL</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b><b>For information, call 631-451-4117 or the Center for Social Justice and Human Understanding, <span style="color: #231f20;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/David/Documents/Immigration/Facebook.com/CSJHU">Facebook.com/CSJHU.</a></span></b></div><b> Email the authors at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com"><span style="background: white; color: #3778cd;">thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com</span></a></b><br /><b><a href="mailto:thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com"><span style="background: white; color: #3778cd;"><br /></span></a></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">For more on immigration dialogues:</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/">https://thepoliticsofimmigration.org/our-immigration-dialogues/</a></span></b>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/09/delveinto-tough-questions-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-90981241613406645Sat, 06 Oct 2018 19:30:00 +00002018-10-06T15:57:10.237-04:00bordermediaroot causesWashPo “Migration ‘Crisis’” Piece Could Use Some ContextIn a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/faced-with-migration-crisis-us-border-chief-finds-no-easy-fix-in-central-america/2018/09/30/b3cad7d4-c327-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html"><b>September 30 article</b></a>, the <i>Washington Post’</i>s Nick Miroff <span style="background: white; color: #444444;">(</span><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/NickMiroff"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">@NickMiroff</span></a></span></b><span style="background: white;">)</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span></i>covers a visit to Central America by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) head Kevin McAleenan. Miroff reports that border apprehensions of migrant families along the southwest border increased by 38 percent in August over the month before; he also notes that the number of Guatemalan families apprehended in fiscal 2018 is nearly double the number from the previous fiscal year.<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Miroff is an excellent reporter who has broken a number of stories, notably on the <a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2017/12/next-up-separating-migrant-kids-from.html"><b>child separation policy</b></a>. But in common with most of the corporate media, his reporting often lacks context. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Trump erupted earlier this year when border arrests skyrocketed,” he writes. It’s true that there was a major increase in asylum seeker arrests, but terms like “skyrocketed” reinforce the impression that alien hordes are pouring across the border. The rise in these arrests actually turns out to be a blip if we view it historically. Even with the new arrests, border apprehensions remain—and have remained for a decade—at their <a href="https://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/07/fun-facts-on-border-crisis.html"><b>lowest level</b></a> since before the majority of the current U.S. population was born.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cSx0LpFurbI/W7kLdDVcrvI/AAAAAAAACS8/xg2NQP1Saqoc_U1M2Pu_ZuWKFGenHcDnQCLcBGAs/s1600/1970s-migration-levels.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cSx0LpFurbI/W7kLdDVcrvI/AAAAAAAACS8/xg2NQP1Saqoc_U1M2Pu_ZuWKFGenHcDnQCLcBGAs/s400/1970s-migration-levels.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Migration crisis? Washington Office on Latin America, from Border Patrol</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal">The article also discusses push factors in Central America’s Northern Triangle, and warns that “[n]ew instability and political polarization in Guatemala could make things worse in the coming year” because of actions by corruption-prone President Jimmy Morales. “American officials have been hesitant to criticize Morales,” Miroff writes. He doesn’t mention that “American officials” have in fact <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/05/19/what-guilt-does-the-us-bear-in-guatemala/guatemalan-slaughter-was-part-of-reagans-hard-line"><b>backed</b></a> every <a href="http://www.coha.org/guatemalan-political-corruption-impunity-starched-out-by-reform/"><b>corrupt regime</b></a> in Guatemala at least since a CIA-backed coup in 1954.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The biggest push factor in Guatemala appears to be poverty and malnutrition in the western highlands, a “crisis…exacerbated by consecutive years of drought and meager harvests.” There’s no mention of the serious possibility that <a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-07-15/climate-change-contributing-migration-central-american-refugees"><b>global warming</b></a> is behind the drought in Guatemala. Ironically, just two days earlier the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-sees-a-7-degree-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100/2018/09/27/b9c6fada-bb45-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html"><b>noted</b></a>that the Trump administration has now admitted that, in the words of scientist Michael MacCracken, “human activities are going to lead to [a] rise of carbon dioxide that is disastrous for the environment and society. And then they’re saying they’re not going to do anything about it.” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">All this context could have been added in a few words, with links. Its absence will lead less informed readers to assume that the flight of Central Americans from their own countries is “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/04/27/laura-ingraham-dismisses-asylum-claims-hondurans-fleeing-violence-its-not-our-problem/220064"><b>not our problem</b></a>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span></div>http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/washpo-migration-crisis-piece-could-use.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-3140190493090133350Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:04:00 +00002018-10-03T18:23:17.924-04:00economic impactguest worker programslaborlegal statusmediaGreat Reporting on Devin Nunes’s Family Farm, But the Analysis Falls Short<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WqGVXSDRuRI/W7U8MC7aObI/AAAAAAAACSM/xdKiF67UFNsEliWhn9vTIgmVdXRmGzBHACLcBGAs/s1600/NunesArticle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1317" data-original-width="980" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WqGVXSDRuRI/W7U8MC7aObI/AAAAAAAACSM/xdKiF67UFNsEliWhn9vTIgmVdXRmGzBHACLcBGAs/s320/NunesArticle.jpg" width="238" /></a>On September 30 <i>Esquire</i> posted a <a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/"><b>fascinating article</b></a> by reporter Ryan Lizza about the Iowa farm </div>operated by the family of California Congress member Devin Nunes, a major Trump supporter. The family quietly moved most of its California dairy operations to this farm, located in the small town of Sibley, more than a decade ago. Lizza wondered why they had been so careful to avoid publicity about the move, so he went to Sibley to investigate.<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">His investigation quickly turned into something out of the old hardboiled detective genre, with sources suddenly clamming up and mysterious vehicles tailing Lizza as he drove around town. Eventually the mystery was solved: dairy farmers and others in the area seemed to be heavily dependent on undocumented labor to carry out their operations. Lizza was unable to establish anything about the Nunes family’s farm, but the presumption is that they too relied on unauthorized workers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Rep. Nunes himself appears to be a moderate on immigration issues, but he’s been an important enabler of the Trump regime, which is committed to a ferocious anti-immigrant agenda. Sibley farmers seem to maintain a similar duality: they disagree with Trump and their Congress member, white supremacist Steve King, about immigration policy, yet they vote overwhelmingly for these men. “There is massive political hypocrisy at the center of this: Trump’s and King’s rural-farm supporters embrace anti-immigrant politicians while employing undocumented immigrants,” Lizza writes.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Lizza’s reporting is great, but his analysis isn’t especially deep. He notes that Iowa’s dairy farmers use undocumented labor to save money—“workers start at fourteen or fifteen dollars an hour, the first farmer said. If dairies had to use legal labor, they would likely have to raise that to eighteen or twenty dollars”—but he doesn’t explore how “illegality” forces these workers to <a href="https://mronline.org/2017/09/13/why-do-we-still-have-employer-sanctions/"><b>accept lower wages</b></a>. And he fails to ask who ultimately benefits from the exploitation of undocumented farm workers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Following the Money</b><br /><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s actually not the farmers, Lizza notes: “many dairies wouldn’t survive” if they had to pay authorized workers. In other words, the farmers underpay their workforce because they are being squeezed by the large food processing and distribution corporations, which pocket the extra profits. So an obvious question would be whether these corporations or their CEOs make contributions to anti-immigrant politicians like Trump and King. Unfortunately, Lizza doesn’t raise this.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">He also seems uninformed about guest worker programs. As Iowa’s farmers see it, the best option is bringing in H-2A workers; farmers can exploit these laborers just as easily as the current undocumented force but without the risk of fines or jail sentences for violating immigration law. However, dairy farming requires year-round employees, while the current H-2A programs only allow seasonal hiring. The farmers want to remove this limitation.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Lizza dismisses the idea as “a fantasy in the current environment; Trump, King, and their allies describe such policies as ‘amnesty.’” Apparently Lizza hasn’t been paying attention. It’s true that King opposes the H-2A expansion, but <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-welcomes-immigrants-but-only-if-they-can-be-exploited/"><b>Trump’s all for it</b></a>. “Guest workers, don’t we agree?” he ranted at an April rally. “We have to have them.”http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/10/great-reporting-on-devin-nuness-family.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897752651143369077.post-1374531427859748599Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:39:00 +00002018-09-25T16:00:33.172-04:00anti-immigrant groupslegal statusmediaResearchers Claim the U.S. Has 22 Million Undocumented Immigrants<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R0Hb2DQjhU8/W6pVTbmy0PI/AAAAAAAACRg/XMdzl2qDojUtBke6wPo9Drkh-BHM-eHRwCLcBGAs/s1600/SOMStudy1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="223" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R0Hb2DQjhU8/W6pVTbmy0PI/AAAAAAAACRg/XMdzl2qDojUtBke6wPo9Drkh-BHM-eHRwCLcBGAs/s400/SOMStudy1.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Authors of a controversial population study describe their methods</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal">An <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201193"><b>academic paper</b></a> published on September 21 by the academic journal <i>PLOS One</i>claims that as of 2016 the unauthorized population was between 16.2 million and 29.5 million. The number, proposed by three scholars associated with the Yale School of Management, is about twice as high as the estimated range of 10.8 million to 12.1 million used by most demographers, including those at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the Pew Research Center, and the government’s own Department of Homeland Security (DHS).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>PLOS One</i> simultaneously published a <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/people-leave-footprints-millions-more-unauthorized-immigrants-cannot-be-hidden"><b>paper by MPI researchers</b></a> sharply criticizing the Yale study.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Most demographers estimate the undocumented population’s size by applying a <a href="http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/09/20/methodology-10/"><b>residual method</b></a>to data from the Census Bureau, DHS, and DHS’s predecessor, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The data is compared to other public records to adjust for the well-known phenomenon of underreporting by undocumented immigrants. The Yale study takes a different approach: the researchers use government records and projections to estimate the inflow of unauthorized immigrants over the border and through overstays and then subtract an estimate of the immigrants’ outflow. (Some of the government’s estimates are discussed <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/17_0914_estimates-of-border-security.pdf"><b>here</b></a>and <a href="http://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-dhs-visa-overstays/"><b>here</b></a>.)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But as the MPI paper notes, it’s only in the past few years that DHS has been providing enough data on unauthorized inflows and outflows to justify estimates. The Yale study projects current estimates back to 1990, ignoring some of the major changes in immigration patterns that resulted from increased border enforcement over the 26 years from 1990 to 2016. The backwards projection method also means that any errors in the estimates for an earlier year are compounded in each subsequent year—in contrast to the residual method, which allows for researchers to make a fresh estimate each year.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The MPI study notes that the “residual method was put to the real-world test successfully in the 1980s,” when “estimates generated with this methodology” turned out to be “largely similar to the actual number of unauthorized immigrants who came forward to get legalized” through the 1986 amnesty. (We make the same point in the first chapter of <i>The Politics of Immigration</i>’s second edition.)<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--></div><b>How Will the Right Use the New Study?</b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anti-immigrant forces have been relatively silent so far—probably because of the current media attention to <b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation.html">various</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-justice-department-trump.html">crises</a></b>for the Trump administration—but it seems likely they’ll be citing the Yale study in the future: anti-immigrant groups and rightwing pundits have spent years exaggerating the size of the undocumented population. For example, author and TV personality Ann Coulter regularly puts the number of undocumented immigrants at <a href="https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jun/02/ann-coulter/no-us-has-not-taken-14-mexicos-population/"><b>30 million</b></a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The rightwing position already gets a good deal of popular support because of widespread misperceptions about immigration. In 2011 <a href="http://www.gmfus.org/publications/transatlantic-trends-immigration-2011"><b>Transatlantic Trends</b></a> researchers asked people in the United States to estimate the proportion of immigrants here. On average, U.S. respondents thought immigrants—naturalized, documented and undocumented—made up 37.8 percent of the U.S. population at a time when the actual proportion was under 14 percent. (If we used the Yale study's estimates, the total foreign-born population would still be less than 18 percent.)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Inflated rhetoric by politicians leads to inflated numbers in people’s minds, and the media often fail to counter this with coverage of some important statistics. How do Coulter and fellow pundit <a href="https://www.prageru.com/videos/nation-immigrants"><b>Michelle Malkin</b></a> get away with their claim that the 11 million figure must be wrong? Their supposed evidence is that the number hasn’t changed over the last decade. This seems convincing because the media constantly report figures on border apprehensions. So the public knows that unauthorized migrants are continuing to enter the country, and it seems like a common-sense conclusion that the undocumented population must be increasing. The media rarely note that undocumented immigrants are also <i>leaving</i>, at the about same rate as they’re entering.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Interestingly, one leading immigration-restrictionist organization, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), immediately rejected the Yale study. A September 22 <a href="https://mailchi.mp/cis/new-estimate-of-22-million-illegal-immigrants-is-not-plausible"><b>CIS article</b></a> expressed agreement with the MPI’s critique and added some additional points. For example, CIS estimates that if the Yale figure was correct, the Department of Education’s 2014 count of children enrolled in schools would have been about 1 million higher. (The Southern Poverty Law Center lists CIS as an <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-immigration-studies"><b>anti-immigrant hate group</b></a>; however, CIS statistics tend to be accurate, although the group’s analysis of them is often questionable.)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><b>Who Are the Study’s Authors?</b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The study’s authors seemed a little defensive in a September 21 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju7LK82XlDw&amp;t=8s"><b>video presentation</b></a> posted by <i>Yale Insights</i> to explain their methods The authors insisted that they had no political agenda to promote. Co-author Edward H. Kaplan pointed out that the study could be used to counter efforts to depict undocumented immigrants as criminals, since if the undocumented population was doubled, the undocumented crime rate would fall in half.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">(This might actually undercut the report. Based on statistics from Texas, the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh has determined that undocumented immigrants are convicted of crimes at a lower rate than the native born but at a higher rate than immigrants with legal status, who tend to be older, more affluent and less likely to be arrested. The Yale study would have the <b><a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/what-there-were-millions-more-illegal-immigrants">improbable result</a> </b>that undocumented immigrants have <i>same</i> conviction rate as authorized immigrants.)</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div>Between them the Yale authors have expertise in statistics, management, economics and engineering, but none seem especially knowledgeable about demography or immigration issues. Publications by <a href="https://som.yale.edu/publications/faculty/edward.kaplan-at-yale.edu"><b>Kaplan</b></a>and <a href="https://som.yale.edu/publications/faculty/jonathan.feinstein-at-yale.edu">J<b>onathan S. Feinstein</b></a> include studies on terrorism and counter-terrorism. Kaplan seems especially interested in the subject. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038012112000547"><b>One article</b></a>“presents staffing models for covert counterterrorism agencies such as the New York City Police Department, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Britain's Security Service or the Israeli Shin Bet,” according to its abstract.http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/09/researchers-claim-us-has-22-million.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Politics of Immigration: Questions &amp; Answers)0